Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-14 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> The thing is .. we don't have these pages when kexec is being performed, >> they are already ballooned out and the hypervisor doesn't have the >> knowledge of which GFNs should be re-populated. I thi

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-13 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 10:41 +, David Vrabel wrote: > On 07/01/15 09:10, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > > > >> Wei Liu writes: > >> > >>> Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in > >>> <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot n

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
"Jan Beulich" writes: On 07.01.15 at 11:41, wrote: >> On 07/01/15 09:10, Olaf Hering wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >>> Wei Liu writes: > Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in > <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point m

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jan 07, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > The thing is .. we don't have these pages when kexec is being performed, > they are already ballooned out and the hypervisor doesn't have the > knowledge of which GFNs should be re-populated. I think it is possible > to keep track of all pages the guest ba

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, Jan 07, David Vrabel wrote: > 2. Reducing the balloon prior to kexec. We carry a patch for kexec(1) which does balloon up before doing the actual kexec call. I propose to get such change into the upstream kexec tools if that is indeed the way to go. The benefit is that the guest waits unt

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 07.01.15 at 11:41, wrote: > On 07/01/15 09:10, Olaf Hering wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: >> >>> Wei Liu writes: >>> Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? >>> >>> Well, the limit

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Olaf Hering writes: > On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Wei Liu writes: >> >> > Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in >> > <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? >> >> Well, the limitation is real and some guest-side handling will be >> req

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread David Vrabel
On 07/01/15 09:10, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Wei Liu writes: >> >>> Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in >>> <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? >> >> Well, the limitation is real and some guest-side handling w

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 05, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Wei Liu writes: > > > Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in > > <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? > > Well, the limitation is real and some guest-side handling will be > required in case we want to support

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-05 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Wei Liu writes: > Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in > <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? Well, the limitation is real and some guest-side handling will be required in case we want to support kexec with ballooning. But as David validly mentioned

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2015-01-05 Thread Wei Liu
Olaf mentioned his concern about handling ballooned pages in <20141211153029.ga1...@aepfle.de>. Is that point moot now? Wei. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] toolstack-based approach to pvhvm guest kexec

2014-12-11 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
This patch series provides x86 PVHVM domains with an ability to perform kexec/kdump. Changes from v4: - "on_soft_reset" option was introduced, now it's possible to specify the behavior [Wei Liu] - renamed libxl__domain_soft_reset_destroy_old to libxl__domain_soft_reset_destroy - libxl__domain_